Bury F.C.

The Bury FC ( officially: Bury Football Club ) is an English football club from Bury in Greater Manchester. The team succeeded in 2011 with the 2nd place promotion to the Football League One. On April 13, 2013 in Bury lost but the game against Oldham Athletic. With this defeat is already before the end of the season 2012/2013 fixed the descent of Bury in the Football League Two.

History

The club was founded in 1885 and plays at Gigg Lane Stadium since then. In the year 1889 was the founding member of the FC Bury Lancashire League until 1894, the club joined the Second Division, which was won in the first year. After a play-off victory against Liverpool, the team was promoted to the Division One.

In 1900, the " Shakers " were able to win the FA Cup with a 4-0 victory over Southampton FC. 1903 repeated this success the club, and in the course of the entire Cup tournament a goal is conceded. The final was won 6-0 against Derby County, which is still the highest playoff victory in the history of the FA Cup.

The nickname " The Shakers " was born on 23 April 1892 Lancashire Cup Final. Since Bury had to deal with a stronger opponent, the first president of the club said JT Ingham the club to courage, saying: ". We shall shake 'em In fact we are the Shakers ", translated, "We will shake In fact, we are Erschütterer. . "

The Bury FC has produced many famous players like Dean Kiely, Terry McDermott, Alec Lindsay, Colin Bell, Lee Dixon and Neville Southall. Among the celebrities of the club including David Adekola who could convince Bury the fact that he had played for the Nigerian national football team, as well as numerous top clubs in Europe, which turned out to be untrue.

In 2005 it succeeded in Bury became the first football club in England to achieve 1000 goals in each of the top four divisions.

The club's stadium, Gigg Lane, the, is also the venue of FC United of Manchester.

The Bury FC announced on April 10, 2013, that he urgently looking for investors, providing a total of 1 million British pounds for the club to secure the long-term survival of the financially troubled club.

Achievements

FA Cup winners in 1900, 1903
FA Youth Cup Winners 1966
Football League Cup semi-final 1963
Lancashire Senior Cup Winners 1892, 1899, 1903, 1906, 1926, 1958, 1983, 1987
Manchester Senior Cup winners 1894, 1896, 1897, 1900, 1903, 1905, 1925, 1935, 1951, 1952, 1962, 1968
Football League First Division Best rank: 4th place 1926
Football League Second Division Winners 1895, 1997; Runner-up in 1924
Football League Third Division winner in 1961; went up in 1995
Football League Fourth Division went up in 1974, 1985

Well-known former players

Scotland John Aitken
England Colin Bell
Baichung Bhutia India
England Luther Blissett
England Stan Bowles
England Lee Dixon
England Martin Dobson
England Derek Fazackerley
Garry Flitcroft England
Wales Brian Flynn
England Andy Gray
Turkey Colin Kazim-Richards

Bruce Grobbelaar Zimbabwe
England Dave Hickson
Ireland Dean Kiely
England Alec Lindsay
England Terry McDermott
Northern Ireland Sammy McIlroy
England David Nugent
England Peter Reid
Wales Neville Southall
Northern Ireland Danny Wilson
Ireland Andrew Keogh
Ireland Paddy Kenny

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